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Today, March 27th, Mark Shuttleworth posted on his blog some interesting information about how the notification system in the Ubuntu operating system will work in the near future. Read more ….

As we’ve reported recently, Linux skills are in high demand in the job market, and online job and recruitment firm Dice.com has confirmed that with data that it tracks. So it shouldn’t come as any surprise that there are new ways emerging to pick up valuable Linux skills. One of the latest examples of this [...]

There’s just never a dull moment here in the Linux blogosphere, whether there’s big news being made at the moment or not. Some weeks, we have wild activity surrounding the latest moves from Canonical, for example, or perhaps Adobe’s latest affront; such happenings are virtually guaranteed to generate some lively conversation. Even in other weeks, [...]

Mid-March is a time ripe for overhauling traditional power structures — or it was, at least, in ancient Rome. But if former Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth is correct in his claim this week that Ubuntu is overtaking Red Hat in the world of Linux servers, we may be in the midst of a major shake-up [...]

Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth wrote a blog post today pointing out that the popular Linux distribution has seen an increase in enterprise server adoption over the past year. He published a graph which indicates that Ubuntu deployments have surpassed those of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) among the top one million most popular websites. Read [...]

The Linux Foundation has come a long way since initiated in 2007 as the fusion of the Open Source Development Lab and Free Standards Group. At its start, I wondered why there was no membership or representation from Canonical, which was the hottest thing in Linux at the time. Though Canonical’s lack of Linux Foundation [...]

Ubuntu announced its 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) release almost 18 months ago, on October 10, 2010 at 10:10:10 UTC. As with the earlier releases, Ubuntu committed to ongoing security and critical fixes for a period of 18 months. The support period is now nearing its end and Ubuntu 10.10 will reach end of life on Tuesday, [...]

While the $25 Raspberry Pi is turning a million eyeballs, Canonical’s incessant attempts at conquering non-Ubuntuers don’t seem to be working out as hoped or planned. Even though Shuttleworth, Canonical’s benevolent dictator, has decided to go all out in order to reach his 200-million mark as early as possible, the efforts are still visibly falling [...]

Even the most hardcore Linux fan would admit that their favorite OS has not captured more than a very small market share on personal computers. And that would include us here at Pingdom: all of our engineers and 50% of or our developers are, in fact, running Linux.Ubuntu has enjoyed great success, and more recently [...]